Composition building material.



i106. COMPOSITIONS, l .12 COATING R PLASTIC. F-

UNI ED STATES PAT NT OF A ZANE BLANDTAYLOR, OF QRBISONIA, PENNSYLVANIA. oomPosmoN BlJlLDl NG MATERIAL.

IlTo. 821,550. I v Specification of Letters Patent. Patented. May 22, 1906.

' Applicationfild May 23,1905. Sria1No.261,895.

To all whom it may concern: uired consistency for the purpose intended. -Be it known that I, ZANE BLAND TAYLOR, a he composition in its plastic form is placed citizen of the United States, residing at Orbiin molds of the desired shape and subjected sonia, in the county of Huntingdon and State to pressure and allowed to harden, when the 55 of Penns lvania, have invented certain new articles thus formed will be ready for use. and use 1 Im rovements in Composition I It is well known that the per cent. or pro- Building Material, of which the following is a portion of the component parts of sla vaspecification. ries-.that is to say, the silica, alumina, 'me,

Nly invention relatesto a new composition and magnesia vary in different 0res'and in p be of matter for the production of artificial pr'acticin my invention I suppl the defistone; and it consists of certain ingredients cienc w erever it occurs by ad ing to the 6 5 or elements mixed together in certain proslag t e additional amount of any ingredient portions, as will be hereinafter fully set forth that may be found by analysis to be below g"; in this specification and briefly stated in the the per cent. or proportion required for the is claims. particular purposein hand.

Y The main object of the invention is to pro- It is important that the component parts I duce an artificial stone possessing certain ador ingredients of the composition herein devantages and''siiperior qualities which will scribed be mixed in substantially the propori well adapt it for the construction of buildtions mentioned in order to produce a build- -zo mgs, monuments, pavements, tiling, dooring material possessing the' 'ghly-desirable steps, &c. ualities and characteristics of strength and I Other objects of the invention, such as durability necessary and the characteristics cheapncss and durability,will become apparthat will render it impervious to water or ent uponamore completedisclosurethereof. dampness. i I Y a 'i 5 ....0 produce my newcompositiomI take Having thus fully described my invention,

ty-four per cent,' of silica twelve per what I claini-isp .80 1 cent. of alumina fifty perm of lime and 1. An artificial stone composed of thirtyp 7 four per s0 ma esia'" to WhlCE ll add four parts of silica; twelve parts of alumina 5, wenty per cent. oFdement and twenty per, fifty parts of lime; four parts of magnesia;

"30 cent. of claE, sand gr'sli'ale. These mgretwenty parts of cement, and twenty arts of dients are oroug y mlxe in a pulverized clay, andsufficient water to bring t e mass 8 5 I,

or granular state; according to the purpose to a plastic condition sgablefor molding.

for which the composition is to be used, and 2. An artificial stone composeZfof thirtya sufiicient uantlty of water and colorin four parts of silica; twelve parts of alumina;

2'35 matter is'added to produce a plastic mass of I fifty. parts of lime; four parts of magnesia;

6i. m e desired cons' ency, /twenty(parts of cement, and twenty parts of In carrying out my inventionl prefer to clay an sand, and sufiicient water .to reduce utilize the metallic dross or refuse of furnac the massto a plastic condition suitable for r1 (more particularly Blast Firnacesfl commolding. T

monly knownassla as it contains thein-v fin artificial stone composed of sixty j gredients or elemen s in'substantially the 'partsof crushed slag contaimn thirty-four 5 a sameproportionsI urpose to use in mycomparts of silica; twelve parts of a umina; fifty f position. Icrusht eslag to the required departs of lime, and four parts of magnesia; gree by grinding the same in any approved adding thereto twenty; arts of cement, igfrnill or glverizer, reducingthe same, orapart twenty parts 'of clay or nd sand, and 1 i f thereo to a poivgefeg form, leaving, in insufiicient water to -reduce the mass to aplas- 10o i'lfstances where 1 '18 no esired to 11d .or tic condition, and a suitable coloring ma-' 7 crush the entire quantit of slag used? a paffi terial. 5T: I of it in n (at 1 ar fm. After the: In testimony whereof'I afiix my signature slag ha I 'u i 6 'u I se reduced j presence of two witnesses.

to the reguired degree,;the g ernent and clay: p TAYLOR. are adde and the Whole.compositionthor- Witnesses: i v r oughly mixed'jby' adding sufficientwater to W. H. H. CARRIGAN,

form a homogeneous plastic mass of mere =1 51 D. MZCCLAHI: 

